I felt a little ill
[lang_en]Martial[/lang_en][lang_it]Marziale[/lang_it], [lang_it]Epigrammi V, 9[/lang_it][lang_en]Epigrams V, 9[/lang_en]
I felt a little ill and called Dr. Symmachus.
But you came with 100 medical students.
One hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me.
I didn’t have a fever, Symmachus, when I called you,
but now I do.
[lang_en]We owe Romans many innovations in medicine, such as Galen's theories and some surgery tools still now used. Nonetheless, Martial pours scorn on the doctors of his day.[/lang_en][lang_it]Risalgono all'antica Roma molte innovazioni nel campo della medicina, come le teorie di Galeno e alcuni strumenti chirurgici usati ancora oggi. Ciononostante, Marziale ironizza sui medici del suo tempo.[/lang_it]
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